(runs along border of ‘jordan’ / the ‘palestinian west bank’ / ‘israel’ / ‘southwestern syria’)
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*also river jordan*
hebrew: נְהַר הַיַּרְדֵּן nahar ha-yarden
arabic: نَهْر الْأُرْدُنّ nahr al-urdun,
ancient greek: Ιορδάνης, Iordànes
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*the jordan river is a ‘251-kilometer’ (or ‘156 miles’)-long river in the ‘middle east’ that flows roughly ‘north’ to ‘south’ through the ‘sea of galilee’ and on to the ‘dead sea’*
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(‘israel’ + the ‘west bank’ border the river to the ‘west’…)
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(…while the ‘golan heights’ and ‘jordan’ lie to its ‘east’)
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(both ‘jordan’ and the ‘west bank’ take their names from the ‘river’)
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(the river has a major significance in ‘judaism’ + ‘christianity’ and, to a more moderate degree, ‘islam’, as the site where the ‘israelites’ crossed into the ‘promised land’ and where ‘jesus of nazareth’ was baptized by ‘john the baptist’)
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